Jill Marshall, Personal Freedom through Human Rights Law? Autonomy, Identity and Integrity under the European Convention on Human Rights

This is a very interesting, timely and scholarly work that analyses images of selfhood, personhood and identity within decisions of the European Court of Human Rights. These images are examined in the context of some of the philosophical ideas on which they depend. The book is timely, particularly in the area of privacy law. As is well known, the Human Rights Act 1998 has changed the nature of privacy law in the UK, especially with decisions of the European Court of Human Rights impacting upon, for example, the law of tort. This has resulted in an extension of privacy laws, often played out in cases concerning newspaper revelations about the lives of celebrities, within a culture that is noted for its obsession with celebrity. Technological changes enabling ever-greater surveillance by the state, the media and individuals have also impacted on the development of privacy law. In addition, at both a theoretical and a practical level, there have been feminist challenges to the way in which we envisage the relationship between the public and private spheres. This has included a critique of the claim that the private sphere is associated with a ‘natural’ form of family, such that subordination within the home was not viewed as ‘political’.

Autonomy · Context (archaeology) · Convention · Human rights · Information privacy · Liability · Personhood · Political science · Politics · Privacy law · Privacy policy · Private sphere · Public sphere · Right to privacy · Sociology · The Right to Privacy · Tort · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Law, Rights, and Freedoms

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